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The Endless Knot · Haken

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove AD -- Part AD (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART M
CHORUS
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AD
OUTRO
BREAK 2
11 groovesS13ADAGTS2+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Endless Knot on drums

138 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 5:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, silence through bars 18-20, toms through bars 21-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-56, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 67-81 -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    67                   68
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
CC |x-------------------|--------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------|x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x--x--x--x--|----x------x--x--x--|
The Endless Knot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AD, AG -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-41 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Endless Knot?

140 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Endless Knot hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Endless Knot?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED